One person dead, 2 hurt in Coram crash

Three people were taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center after a two-car crash near the intersection of Old Town Road and County Road 83 in Coram, officials said. (June 15, 2012) Photo Credit: Robert Garofalo

The drivers, Hector Marmol, 18, also of Port Jefferson Station, and Michelle Gass, 22, of Coram, were in serious condition at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Suffolk County police said.

Detectives are investigating the cause of the crash that happened about 5:45 a.m. at an intersection with a traffic light. Neither driver has been charged or ticketed.

Gass was driving a white 2012 Ford Focus north on North Ocean Avenue when her car hit Marmol's black 2011 Nissan Rogue heading east on Old Town Road, police said. Genao was a passenger in Marmol's car.

Both vehicles went through a fence and came to a rest in the yard of a home on Harford Drive, police said. The Nissan struck a tree about a dozen feet from the home, overturned and caught fire, while the Ford ended up in a stand of trees nearby, according to police and witnesses.